Defense Department to spend additional $5.6 billion on F-35 fighter planes
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The Defense Department has announced that it is paying an additional $5.57 billion to expand the U.S. military’s arsenal of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters by 74.
The contract action is seen as an early stamp of progress for the next “lot” of planes, which the Defense Department Joint Program Office and Bethesda-based defense manufacturer Lockheed Martin are negotiating. Joint Program Office spokesman Joe DellaVedova said that the round of planes is set to include 50 planes sold to foreign governments, bringing the total to 141 planes in this sales lot.
“We appreciate the actions taken by the JPO to ensure delivery of F-35s to our warfighter customers,” Lockheed Martin said in a statement.
What remains to be determined is the unit cost of the plane. Price disputes have derailed the program in the past, such as when the F-35 Joint Program Office unilaterally imposed its own pricing for the ninth lot of planes after more than a year of negotiations.
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